OLDYELLOW

yup garden fantails, would want the cock near the racing hens

hope the others work there way back for you

ask havey if he has a hen off his

staf sootgen or jansen should be fine , i found the marselles to have a weird tail but just me , so i like the jansen or previous cross as have better tails

staf van reet crossed one with a staf was in clock this yb season other cross was sootgen x pauwel also was in clock twice this yb season , may make good yearlings next year

bred a cock 2nd club 07 season as a yb beaten by 2 yards by an ets flyier

It's my turn ~ Diana Ross

best one i've heard for a while you need to read it with a southern redneck accent ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

lovey changes everything ~ Climey Fisher

see you had to make changes dovey lol

terrible news Jimmy but from what i have read in previous post you knew it was on the cards , i must admit the ybs i have seen online look like crackers just wish i had the room , all the best for the future mate. Mark

I realy cant see the need for this thread to continue its quite clear the delay was three days , a simple appology would of sufficed , yes it is early days for most couriers and yes to err is to be human , yes a mistake / delay has been made but what i dont understand is this the couriers expect birds to be boxed on arrival and if delays are as stated over three days im sorry but i wouldnt box anything till the courier was on my doorstep , if transit boxes were left for next time i would be more than happy to get ready for the next time and a 2 minute boxing wouldnt be such a delay. To state that posts are jelousy ectra undermines the integraty of the courier and comes across that your not sympathetic to your customers needs , and to further alienate a few doesnt make for good buisness sense , listen absorb reguritate move on and improve , as you state your are customer friendly and your main concern is delivering pigeons on time and provide excelent customer service , perhaps people skills and a thicker skin is needed when you are on a forum , you can please some of the people some of the time but not all the people all of the time , think before you do yourself a Ratners ( he claimed his jewerly was crap and he paid by loosing it all ), be firstly apollogetic second be understanding and thirdly offer a solution , perhaps offer Dereck his next delivery he recieves at the going rate if your late he gets it for free , This is not meant in anyway to cause you any detriment but to help you as i feel you will probably be the last one standing after all the smoke settles , all the best Mark

i am not disagreeing that if all ailments were illiminated then your birds would perform to there optimum level , my disagreeance is this if your birds arent ailing then why treat at all ? there natural immunity will be compromised by treating when not nessasary, im sure a trip to the vet and treating for issues that need addresing would cost alot less and wouldnt compomise the natural immune system , so to say im not going to post anymore is like a child taking there ball away and saying im not playing , your post points out the issues our pigeons encounter at one time or another the cleanest to the dirtiest loft have the same issues , and where people cant get the services of a good avian vet this post is usefull , i look forward to reading posts what works for one doesnt work for all . When the moult has finished i will be taking a dropping sample and getting a microplasma culture done via my vet and my vet will advise what and precribe the correct medications if needed prior to pairing

surely a more central route would seem fairer to all , but you cant please all of the people all of the time , as for the transporter hold a few yb sales ectra and levy member £20 on there fed membership to get one also they could use incentives such as an Electronic Timing System to race for via a £5 race nom , in the time of decline a more united front is needed to keep the sport going .

better to use one method of trapping as then the birds feel safer and dont mess around , if they dont trap then its because of the confusion on how they enter , i used to use open door for old birds but with the ets most will be moving to traps

Happy birthday i hope you have a great day , pass hoover and scraper and oven gloves to Duncan for day im sure he'll come up with a picture using them all , he may just buy you some flowers , plain , self raising , wholemeal , bleached ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

ive housed sprinters and distance pigeons in same loft for years and in same season have won shortest race and longest race due to space confines , if you have the room and time then best to keep seperate , but i find the sprinters tend to drag the distance birds behind them and it was never a problem having them together

if you want your birds to trap quicker , then give them something to trap for and the best motivation i have found comes down to one seed and thats dari either red or white ( also called milo ) the folowing mix is a seed mix i have been using for years and it works and i have passed it on to a few people on here that have had bad trapping with great results , buy equal quantitys of the following Linseed , black rapeseed , hemp , canary seed , and dari use this mix during the racing season as a traping mix , out of season if flying birds out just used the dari , the dari tastes like sugar to the pigeons and they go mental for it , this will improve your trapping. With Mark Proctors permision i will copy his ims or he can tell you that it actualy does work.

there dietry needs arent those of a racing pigeon Micko , so dampen corn with a freshly squeeze citrus fruit and add brewers yeast will give them all the vitamins they need and essential amino acids , good grit and a mineral pickstone will keep young Jacks birds in top condition , and i loved the Indian fantails they have personalitys of there own

forever ~ Dee Dee ( or is it chicka dee dee lol )

Forever young ~ Interactive ( is it your birthday chickadee if so happy birthday )

forever in blue jeans ~ Neil Diamond

the benifits would be the omega 3 oils and vitamin D which can be harmfull in large quantitys and not to be used when feeding ybs , be wiser geting Groundnut oil and just adding a drop to corn with some vitamised brewers yeast once a week there only indian fantails .

i had the chocolate mulemans chocolates were good breeder but only when ofspring were blues bars checks n pencils and the chocolate were good breeders but wouldnt race, spent a fortune on them and all were crap

that was exactly the point i was making , and nothing worse than pigeons holding corn